Devil's Army

The Japanese puppet regime in Wuhu was constantly attacked by the New Fourth Army and the devilish troops along the way.

Their attack was first blocked at Huangtuling in Liuxia Village, and now it is blocked at Huoyanshan in Baoxingji. Their morale has plummeted.

Meanwhile, the morale of the Second Battalion was high because the air force had regained air superiority.

The second battalion commander decided to take advantage of the situation to launch a night attack on the Japanese and puppet troops in Wuhu.

That night, the battalion commander selected four platoons from each company to form four assault teams, which quietly approached the Japanese camp.

According to reconnaissance, although the morale of the Japanese troops was low, their defenses were very tight.

If the assault team were to rashly attack the Japanese camp, they would likely be wiped out.

The company commander, who was in charge of the assault team, thought that since they had come, they should make some noise and demoralize the Japanese troops.

He set his sights on the path to the left of Flaming Mountain. His target was a Japanese patrol squad.

He ordered: One squad to annihilate the Japanese patrol squads within the encirclement. The second and third squads to ambush in the woods to the left of Flaming Mountain to annihilate the Japanese reinforcements. The fourth squad to cover the rear and escort the assault team back to Flaming Mountain.

Each squad quickly completed its battle deployment.

Soon after, a Japanese patrol squad patrolled from the direction of the military camp to the small path on the left side of Flaming Mountain.

The series of defeats during the day had demoralized the Japanese troops. The Japanese patrol squads, like zombies, entered the assault team's encirclement.

As the squad leader fired his gun, the squad of assault soldiers fiercely fired and threw grenades at the Japanese troops in the encirclement.

The Japanese patrol squad hastily lay down to block the attack of a small unit.

The gunshots alerted the Japanese troops in the camp.

Judging from the intensity of the gunfire, the major estimated that the devilish force that ambushed their patrol was about a platoon, and immediately dispatched a company to reinforce them.

Soon, this Japanese infantry company also entered the ambush zone of the second and third squads.

Bullets rained down on the Japanese infantry company from the forests of Flaming Mountain.

A small team also quickly wiped out the Japanese patrol in the encirclement and launched an attack on the Japanese infantry company in the encirclement from the front.

The sudden burst of gunfire startled the major. He realized he had been tricked by the devilish troops and quickly arranged for a large force to go to his aid.

The main force of the Japanese army was ambushed by the Fourth Platoon on its way to reinforce the troops.

The company commander heard the gunfire from the fourth squad and knew that the main force of the Japanese army was approaching. Seeing that the situation was favorable, he ordered his troops to retreat.

When the gunfire from the company commander's position ceased, the fourth squad leader knew that the company commander and his men had retreated. He too began a coordinated retreat towards Flaming Mountain.

The Japanese reinforcements successfully broke through the fourth squad's resistance and reached their infantry company. However, by this time, the Devil Troops had vanished without a trace, their patrol squad had been completely wiped out, and the infantry company had suffered nearly half its casualties.

The daytime battles made the Japanese realize that the devilish troops in Flaming Mountain were not limited to just this one company.

They dared not pursue them into the Flaming Mountains, fearing an ambush by the devil's army.

However, this section of the road cannot be left unpatrolled; if troops are not sent to patrol, the left side of their camp will be wide open.

So the major came up with a compromise: he had the puppet troops patrol the path in place of the Japanese troops, with a few Japanese soldiers stationed along the way to supervise.

The retreating assault team stopped retreating when they saw that the Japanese army had not pursued them.

Soon, the scouts discovered that Japanese and puppet troops were patrolling this road again.

So, the company commander repeated his old trick.